Kilmaurs railway station

Kilmaurs
Kilmaurs station, looking towards Stewarton prior to enhancements
Location
Place	Kilmaurs
Local authority	East Ayrshire
Coordinates	55.6368°N 4.5306°W / 55.6368; -4.5306
Operations
Station code	KLM
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	68,012
2004/05 *	68,299
2005/06 *	69,436
2006/07 *	72,497
2007/08 *	73,446
2008/09 *	84,614
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
Original company	Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	CR and G&SWR
Post-grouping	LMS
26 June 1873	Opened
7 November 1966	Closed
12 May 1984	Re-opened
2009	Platform extended
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kilmaurs from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Kilmaurs railway station is a railway station in the town of Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line.

History

The original Kilmaurs station was opened on 26 June 1873 by the Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway. The buildings on the Up platform (the platform for trains to Kilmarnock and the South) was destroyed by fire in 1914 and replaced by a brick building which, until its closure in 1966, was the only one in south west Scotland to be centrally heated.^{[citation needed]} To the south of the station, a signal box containing 17 levers controlled the section and allowed access to a goods yard.

The station officially closed on 7 November 1966. The current station opened on 12 May 1984.

Platform extension work started in September 2009 to cater for longer units associated with the track doubling works between Stewarton and Lugton.

Being close to Kilmarnock station the guards often fail to sell tickets to all passengers travelling to Kilmarnock and as the station has no ticket machine the passenger figures are accordingly less than actual use.^{[citation needed]}

Service

2010 service pattern

• Mondays to Saturdays - a mainly half-hourly service northbound to Glasgow Central and southbound to Kilmarnock, with selected services extended beyond Kilmarnock towards Carlisle, Newcastle, Girvan, Ayr and Stranraer.
• Sundays - hourly each way served by trains between Glasgow Central and Kilmarnock, with a few extended south towards Dumfries and Carlisle.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kilmarnock		First ScotRail Glasgow South Western Line		Stewarton
	Historical railways
Kilmarnock		Caledonian and Glasgow & South Western Railways Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway		Stewarton

Gallery

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  Inaugural run souvenir ticket for 12 May 1984

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  Looking towards Kilmarnock (note the new shelter), 2007

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  Looking towards Stewarton, 2007

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  Kilmaurs station approach, 2008

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  Kilmaurs from the Floors farm bridge

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  Platform extension works - looking towards Stewarton

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  Platform extension works - looking towards Kilmarnock

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• RAILSCOT on Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway